Separator device



Oct. 29, 1935. E, U H 2,018,901

SEPARATOR DEVICE Filed July 11, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I INVENTOR.

LEO 1 E. Aus

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Patented Oct. 29, 1935 UNITED STATES SEPARATOR DEVICE Leo E. Rush,Lafayette, Ind., assignor to M. L. Joyce, Lafayette, Ind.

Application July 11, 1932, Serial No. 621,885

3 Claims.

The chief object of the invention is to provide means for filtering fromthe liquid such as gasoline the water and sediment that might beincluded therein, and collect the same in a sump 5 which may be readilycleaned.

Another object of the invention is to eliminate the air that may beentrapped with the liquid being supplied under pressure before theliquid reaches the metering device and if the pump is 10 equipped with atelltale device commonly known as a visi-gauge before the liquid reachesthe latter.

Another object of the invention is to provide means whereby the meter,visi-gauge (if eml5 ployed), and the hose, if the pump is of theso-called "wet hose type, is full of liquid from which the air has beenremoved and from which all of the adulterants, such as water, grit andsediment, have been removed, and to maintain no this liquid atsubstantially atmospheric pressure in the hose, visi-gauge, and themeter.

The chief feature of the invention consists in the employment of meanssuitable for accomplishing the aforesaid objects and'a further fea- 25ture of the inventiton consists in the association of the respectiveparts with an automatically initiated power operable dispensing pumpstructure.

The full nature of the invention will be more clearly understood fromthe accompanying drawings and the following description and claims:

Fig. 1 is a central sectional view of the upper portion of a dispensingpump equipped with the unit embodying the invention, a meter, the face35 of the same being shown in elevation and the pressure applying pumpproper and the power means therefor being omitted, since these may be ofa conventional character. Fig. 2 is an enlarged central sectional viewthrough the unit. 40 Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the unitbase and connections and is taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and in thedirection of the arrows. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 of amodified form of the invention. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sec- ;45 tionalview similar to Fig. 2 but of the form of the invention shown in Fig. 4,parts being broken out to condense the figure.

In the drawings l0 indicates a suitable standard or casing within whichis included the operating 50 parts of a dispensing pump suitable for thedispensing of gasoline. In Fig. 1, the apparatus shown therein is notillustrated with the electric motor and pressure applying unit or pumpconnected thereto since these are conventional. The 55. pressureapplying pump has its intake communieating with a pipe that extends tonear the bottom of a storage tank, usually an underground one. Thedischarge from the pressure applying pump is connected to a pipeindicated at iii in Fig. 2. 5

The casing supports a metering chamber l6 (see Fig. 1) upon which ismounted a meter structure I! that operates the indicating fingers l8 andl 9 and the counting wheel mechanism 20. The discharge from chamber I6is connected by 10 conduit 2| to the intake 22 of a telltale devicecommonly known as a visi-gauge of which there are several commercialforms now available. Said visi-gauge is indicated by the numeral 23. Thedischarge 24 therefrom connects to a flexible hose 25 that terminates ina nozzle 26 which preferably is controlled by a hand valve at thenozzle. This is the so-called wet hose type of p p.

In the present form of the invention the cas- 20 ing l0 supports a headcasting 21 and. formed thereon is a socket 28 adapted to receive an endof the nozzle 26 as shown in Fig. 1. The head casting supports a lightbulb socket 29 in bracket 30 and the head casting also supports a globe25 or other advertising device 3| illuminated by the lamp or light bulb32 mounted in the socket 29 and supplied with electric current throughwires enclosed within the conduit 33.

The hose nozzle when mounted in the socket 0 28, engages a lever arm 33which is tilted thereby and through the rod 35 normally retains theelectric switch for controlling the electric motor in open circuitposition. Upon removal of the filling nozzle 26 from the socket 28, thelever 33 is 35 released to its constraint and the rod 35 is movedthereby serving to close the electric circuit to the motor whichimmediately starts the pressure pump operating to supply liquid underpressure from the underground storage tank to the inlet 4 l5 of theseparator unit A to which this invention is specifically directed.

The unit A includes a lower chamber and an upper chamber 4|, the latterterminating in a dome 42. The dome has an outlet 43 and a 5 conduit 44leads therefrom and preferably extends to the underground storage tank.Interposed in the conduit and as shown in Fig. 2, at the junction of theconduit with the dome is a normally open but restricted passage 45, thepurpose of which will appear more fully hereinafter.

' The chamber 4| is separated from the chamber 40 by a partition 46having an opening 41 therein. Surrounding said opening and in spacedrelation and extending upwardly from the par-

